This got me thinking. When I was younger, I could only afford very cheap cars, so you'd think they'd be old and have high mileage. Surprisingly, despite paying as little as £480, the oldest car I've owned was 15 years old at the time, and only had about 80k on the clock.
I don't own a car now, but I park my company van at home. It has 1755 miles at the moment. It's a face lifted, slightly more refined version of the otherwise identical 8-year-old Vauxhall Corsavan with 85k it replaced a few weeks ago, yet some of my colleagues still have vans up to 10 years old, some with 150k, and in much worse condition than mine, which only suffered the usual clogged turbo which affects all the 1.3 cdti engines after 40k, several blown bulbs, a broken anti-roll bar, and a snapped door handle linkage. There's a van which is a year older than my old one, with 119k on the clock, that has just had its entire engine replaced for the third time. I can't believe the van is worth more than £1000 in perfect condition, so how does that make any sense?
Highest I ever had was my Audi 80 back when I was at University, that got to around 85k when I sold it. The most in a year I have put in a car is around 45k, but back then I either got a replacement every 12-18 months or had a company car. Now I work from home and do around 10-12k a year (hopefully less as just started working from home in April). My 2013 Lexus RX has around 41k on it after 3.5 years. My other half's 2011 Buick Regal T07 has around 75k on and we will be trading that soon hopefully (she drives more than me, she got it at 31k around 3 years ago)
